Hingst's Sign Post: Going Green

Jim Hingst writes: “A few years ago I volunteered to research what was involved in ‘green certification.’ What was I thinking?

“I must have been hallucinating when I thought that all that would be involved was completing lengthy paperwork for some newly-established ‘green’ government agency and paying some ridiculously exorbitant fee. Life is never that easy.”

He continues, “As I was to discover, tackling the question of what “going green” means is an extremely difficult assignment. Here’s the problem. There is no universal definition of “going green” and no such thing as an all-encompassing “green certification”.